In case you haven't seen, Microsoft said you can use all their software that's ever been available to dowload for free! Windows, Office, games, all free! Get cracking!
And you can use those products' assets to create your own software! Fair use is amazing!
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ChatGPT already has “Ph.D.-level intelligence,” in that once you remove it from its extremely narrow field of expertise (assembling words into credible-sounding passages) it is wildly out of its depth, but people vastly overestimate its authority because they don’t understand what “intelligence” is.
About half of my commute is along town streets, which really limits social interactions because so much is managing riding in lanes with motor vehicles.
But sometimes there's kids out on bikes that make a distant fuss about my going by, and getting to chime my bike bell to them is just the best!
Temperature in the mid 80's. Low humidity. Clear skies. Light breeze.
My mind in the 20th century: This is a nice day
My mind in the 21st century: IT'S LIKE 9/11 OUT HERE
MLB holding itself resposible for MLB's racist past by claiming the stastical record of those that they excluded is very "The police investgated the claims of police misconduct and found nothing wrong"
A Pennsylvania jury ordered ExxonMobil to pay $725.5 million to a former mechanic who claimed toxic chemicals in the company’s gasoline and solvents caused his cancer, according to attorneys for the plaintiff.
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One of the great things about getting around on a bike is that you're never moving so fast that you can't stop for that thing that you need when you pass the store that sells it
Pair this with what Katie's describing here, and you'll wonder why you ever took an entire car for every trip
the thing about an ebike that i still need to rewire my brain for is that needing one item from the store stops being a debate about whether it's "worth" making the trip for one item. now, it's basically an excuse to ride, and i'll still come back home sooner anyways.
A woman who had been living inside a Michigan grocery store rooftop sign for a year has been asked to leave
Authorities said the 34-year-old made the sign her home with a mini desk, food pantry, a houseplant and more
thinking about how the vietnam war protestors were covered by media to obfuscate the increasing war crimes being committed by the US and comparing it to how campus protests are being covered currently to obfuscate the ongoing genocide
The Kei Truck Garden Contest (2018)
The Japan Federation of Landscape Contractors organizes an annual landscaping contest, where landscaping contractors from around Japan arrive on site & spend several hours transforming their cargo beds into gardens
Watching the Lord of the Rings and coming away with the message that Frodo should have been more worried with prices for bread and pipeweed than with the fate of Gondor is exactly the kind of media literacy I'd expect from the national Libertarian Party
Can’t stress how amazing this feed of all gift links/gift articles shared on Bluesky is. It’s largely the best of the stuff in traditional papers without the bullshit and fluff, shared by people who liked it enough to pay for it.
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